GOOD DAY QUOTES: 30 reminders to make today better than yesterday

This collection of 30 good day quotes will put a smile on your face and inspire you to make today better than yesterday. Includes quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Picasso and Meister Eckhart.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. – Elbert Hubbard

You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love. – Nicholas Sparks

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have. – Lemony Snicket

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. – Prince

It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot

Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. – Marcus Aurelius

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead

I love the smell of book ink in the morning. – Umberto Eco

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. – William Blake

Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. – Glen Cook

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Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. – Meister Eckhart

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible. – Oprah Winfrey

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. – Bil Keane<

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that. – Gillian Anderson

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi

Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me … Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. – Shel Silverstein

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend—or a meaningful day. – Dalai Lama

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be. – Stephen Chbosky

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Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is! – Dita Von Teese

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. – Neil Gaiman

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. … It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. – S. Lewis

That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly. – Hanya Yanagihara

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth. – William W. Purkey

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